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table of contents
  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Tourists to Terra
  4. Not in the Rules
  5. The Martians and the Coys
  6. Mercy Flight
  7. Halftripper
  8. The Cosmic Bluff
  9. Dogfight—1973
  10. Potential Enemy
  11. Off Course
  12. The Galactic Ghost
  13. Happy Ending
  14. After Some Tomorrow
  15. Unborn Tomorrow
  16. The Good Seed
  17. Summit
  18. Revolution
  19. Adaptation
    1. Foreword
    2. I
    3. II
    4. III
    5. IV
    6. V
    7. VI
    8. VII
    9. VIII
    10. IX
    11. X
    12. XI
    13. XII
  20. Combat
  21. Medal of Honor
  22. I’m a Stranger Here Myself
  23. Gun for Hire
  24. Freedom
  25. Ultima Thule
  26. Farmer
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
  27. Status Quo
  28. Mercenary
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
    8. VIII
    9. IX
    10. X
    11. XI
  29. Subversive
  30. The Common Man
  31. Frigid Fracas
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
    8. VIII
    9. IX
    10. X
    11. XI
    12. XII
    13. XIII
    14. XIV
    15. XV
    16. XVI
    17. XVII
    18. XVIII
    19. XIX
    20. XX
    21. XXI
    22. XXII
  32. Spaceman on a Spree
    1. I
    2. II
  33. Colophon
  34. Uncopyright

Colophon

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Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1950 and 1963 by
Mack Reynolds.

This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
B. Timothy Keith,
and is based on transcriptions produced between 2007 and 2021 by
Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell, David King, Mary Meehan, Geetu Melwani, Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks and Distributed Proofreaders
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans from the
Internet Archive.

The cover page is adapted from
Artillery,
a painting completed in 1911 by
Roger de la Fresnaye.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

This edition was released on
March 10, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
and is based on
revision 8e1570e.
The first edition of this ebook was released on
July 17, 2019, 10:27 p.m.
You can check for updates to this ebook, view its revision history, or download it for different ereading systems at
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